Golden Eagles in progress

Three years ago I joined Keepsake Quilting's Gold Membership. Apart from the coupons, etc. I received many 10" squares of gold fabrics. I have never been a fan of gold fabric, but with each years' membership the pile of 10" squares was adding up. A few years ago I received the medium blue bamboo floral with a touch of gold.

Slowly, I've been putting this together. I started with the flying geese and bamboo print. The first set of rectangle/square borders were made with left overs after cutting the flying geese. One or two more borders are needed for a twin size quilt.

The time I have spent with this piece, the more I admire and like working with the gold fabric. I'm actually looking forward to my next gold membership renewal in November.

Fabrics for Fish

While working on LD's Hibiscus I was reminded of my wish (from 1993) to do a series of pieces using the soft colors of Bermuda. Not my usual colors. I have collected some soft aquas, blues and yellows through the years.
This first project will be a baby quilt . Soft Aqua watery background with bold jeweled tone fish.
I spent 6/30 making 40+ fish.

Theresa's Scrap Pinwheel

This winter/spring I hand quilted two pinwheels for Theresa Gagne - the Patchwork Boutique Lady who had a quilt shop in Saco, Maine for over 20 years.

This one has each pinwheel done in a different medium or dark fabric, unbleached muslin is the background. Each pinwheel was quilted in the ditch and also 1/4" inside the pinwheel. The threads matched each pinwheel .

The other quilt was also a scrap with a solid navy background. It had a totally different look.